I’m conflicted with this, but it’s an honest question. Every single game and it doesn’t matter if we are playing UNI or Texas, it seems half the damn crowd leaves at half and NEVER makes it back by kickoff of the second half. It kills the 3rd quarter atmosphere IMO. It feels like we are the only fans that do this because every other game I watch of another school their lower level stands are still packed come second half kickoff. Ours looks like everyone just decided to head on home.

How confident are you the Iowa State will win this game?

I’m at 100%. I think the final score looks a lot like the UNI game.

Enjoy!

Outside of the Joel Lanning packages, how many QB rushing attempts has his offense called since he's been in Ames?

We have the same talent as K-State, yet our coach refuses to use a weapon that they consistently use..

We need to be recruiting dual threat QB's not pocket passers, until our offensive line gets a pulse. Throwing 3 yard out routes and screen passes doesn't require Peyton Manning at QB

So another year, same ol crap!!
1. Two weeks in a row and we can coordinate the fly over with the end of the National Anthem.
2. Nothing against the Bells of Iowa State but that tune brings the crowd down. Need to play that right away and get it out of the way.
3. Need to find new music to get fans in the stand off their butts! Yesterday was far from electric! When the crowd needed to get into it we wouldn’t.
4. Our big go to is the headset cam and the Buff City flex for the camera… Really! Half the people didn’t even realize they were on camera!
5. And finally, the one song that gets people up and into the game, Juicy Wiggle, and they play it with 2 minutes left in the game. The person in charge doesn’t know anything about creating an electric atmosphere.

I understand bills need to be paid but let’s get some energy in our crowd. And it starts with the person in charge of selecting the audio. I watched several games last night and you could hear the crowd getting into the game. If you think our stadium is electric, go to Virgian Tech, Alabama, LSU, Clemson, Penn St. even K-State! You will see a vast difference. We need to rethink our current practice and get some energy at Jack Trice Stadium !!!

That’s one way to avoid the buyout!

What do you have?

Hawkeye gal sprawled on the ground near our tailgate. Her two friends helped to support her to walk.

Saw a guy literally sleeping or passed out in his chair by an RV as we were leaving the Haunted Forest

Hawkeye Fans tried to get into some seats and were told those were they someone else’s seats. Lady said they was their season tickets. Gal responded it was here parents tickets and knew who they gave the tickets to come to sit by them. Hawk lady called the gal a *****, which the gal’s husband heard. The husband was not a happy camper and responded, “What did you just say?” Thought all hell might break loose. Hawk lady just moved on with her husband who just kinda stood in the background.

I've watched some games where the announcers get this right. But today's game -- and so many others -- gloss over the parts of the story that are critically important, especially in our current era.

Jack Trice was not just the first black player on Iowa State's football team. He was one of the early black players outside of HCBUs generally, because colleges and their sports teams were heavily segregated in that era.

Jack Trice did not just die after a football game. He was trampled (ultimately to death) by racists during a game in Minnesota of all places.

This white-washing of Jack Trice's story to make it more appealing to a general audience is obnoxious, and if networks aren't going to tell the full story, I almost wish they wouldn't bring it up at all.

/end rant.

Why was the flag picked up when Ferentz called their 3rd time out in the 2nd quarter when they had 12 men in the huddle?

My story from today's game. I hope you guys enjoy it.

Rocco Becht showed poise and Matt Campbell built trust in his young quarterback during Saturday's Cy-Hawk game.

You don’t beat Iowa playing Iowa’s game. It works for us in the B12, but we need be different when we play Iowa.

I think this is especially true in the second game of the season.

As always the one or two series we sped up against them we have success.

I really hope this is the last year of the Ferentz regime.

The Offense (Positives, Negatives, and what I'm neutral on)
- Positive: Abu Sama has some real potential. Only had 25 yards as Norton got the lion's share of carries. But anyone who knows football can see that this guy has some ability. Ability with burst, and make you miss. He reminds me of Alexander Robinson, good back we had in the Rhoads years.
- Jayden Higgins is a dawg, 95 yards and 1 TD. We should have gone to him more downfield today. He has high end ability.
- Ben Brahmer, this guy catches everything. In two games he is already better than Easton Dean. He's going to be special.
- Negatives: Jaylin Noel. I am sorry, I can't accept that this guy is our #2 receiver moving forward. Against UNI he had 4 receptions for 6 yards (not a typo). Today he has 3 drops, and he had 8 catches for a 6 yard average. He tends to NOT break any tackles, or take a small catch for a YAC gain. I'd frankly rather see more throws go to Jayden Higgins, Ben Brahmer, Aidan Bitter, or even Dimitri Stanley (he can burn people deep). He stayed in the game after all these drops which I can only shake my head at.
- Negatives: The lack of downfield throwing. Why not test Iowa's other corner (opposite Dejean) down the field more often? Again, keeping everything tight play's right into Iowa's hands. Daniel Jackson had a nice 13 yard catch, Higgins had a couple past 10 yards. Don't know why we didn't stress them more.
- Negative: I love Cartevious Norton as the hammer back and the short yardage back. But he has no business running out routes, he doesn't have the speed or bend to do this. IF we are going to complement a RB in the pass game, make that Abu Sama please.
- Neutral: O Line. We did have 90 yards rushing against what will be the toughest D we will face this year. I think this O line will get better as the year goes along. But they are in "prove it" mode for sure. For me it is too early to condemn them as similar to last year. I'm actually excited to see them in league play.
- Neutral: Scheelhaase. The UNI game is always strange, and Iowa is always very talented. Let's see how he does against Ohio and the Big 12. There were too many out rout passes today. I'll also say, we HAVE TO make defenses account for Rocco as a runner more. We cannot treat him like a glass doll, he has to run for some yards 4-5 times a game. That cost us the 4th down today obviously. Hopefully that is coached back into him moving forward.

Defense
- What can you say? The rest of the staff should be treating Heacock to steak dinners every month. Many games would be out of hand if not for the brillian play of our defense.
- Beau Freyler today looked like a high level NFL strong safety. Tackles well, big size, and makes key hits.
- Jeremiah Cooper is "Honey Badger Light". Man what a hell of a player.
- Cade McNamara was a little too comfy at times. We had some blitzes that narrowly missed. That's football I guess.

Misc.
- I think we as a fanbase can somewhat worry less and less about ND and Ohio State poaching our coach. Why? Look at his record in the Iowa rivalry and in close games the last 3 years.
- The biggest thing I want to see from now until the end of the season is offensive improvement. We need to be more creative on offense, mix in varying tempo's, and just keep defenses honest more. I think this includes more sprinkled in QB zone read runs, down field tosses, different plays in the run game. The shotgun handoff up the middle is a staple, and we have to deviate off of it when it's not working.

Saw Georges at the Cy-Hawk game today, got a discussion among our group about most popular Cyclone basketball player AFTER Fred Hoiberg. Niang was a an almost unanimous choice.
-4 year player
-successful tams while he was here
- related well to the community then and now.
Ejim and Morris were others mentioned but we agreed Georges was it.
Thoughts?

It'll be so much fun playing someone who doesn't have ISU circled as a Superbowl!

I’m going with 4-8 again. I think we beat Ohio, BYU and pull off another win somewhere else somehow. Would be a very underwhelming season again.

Tired of watching Iowa put this game away by halftime because we know that two touchdowns in the second half is like climbing Mt. Everest on one leg
Tired of losing to a total mediocrity of a program because we can't do the simplest things that are supposed to be our calling card
Tired of not being able to pick up a single god damn yard when we really, really need one
Tired of running the most predictable play possible when we need that yard knowing full well we can't pull it off
Tired of the same game plan for 17 years in a row, because this year will be the time it finally works
Tired of our insistence on making Brian Ferentz look competent
Tired of watching Iowa fans reveling in our humiliation in our own stadium
Tired of wondering why a program with a NYD bowl game winning coach is asking itself these questions in the 8th year of that coach's tenure
Tired of wondering when these supposed great recruiting classes start to pay off

Tired - really, really tired - of this:
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SMH. I should change the thread title Camball. He doesn’t deserve for me to spell his name right.

It’s clear at this point the OC doesn’t matter. Campbell is running the show. I get it’s a freshman qb, but wow how stubborn can you be to constantly run the ball up the middle on first down thinking it will eventually work. If you don’t have the players, get creative and put them in winning positions. If KU can do it, why can’t we?

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0-0 barn burner nearing half. I'm rooting for a 0-0 tie.

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